William Beatty-Kingston in Bucharest
from Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, page 119:
At the very height of the "fast and furious" fashionable season in Bucharest, one admitted to the penetralia of Boyar society may attend half-a-hundred evening parties without being called upon to make pretence, amid a ceaseless buzz of small-talk, of listening to "a little music."
cite as
William Beatty-Kingston, Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, volume 1 (London, 1887), p. 119. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1447535987536 accessed: 18 January, 2025
Listeners
Experience Information
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:19:47 +0000
Approved on Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:06:51 +0000